Vaguely technical pitboss question

[agibb]

So I've just installed Civ IV and pitboss on my knackered old PC that I'm using as a server. (Key point here: I used my Laptops DVD drive, as the old PC only has a CDROM!) I tried running the pitboss and that just popped up a quick command prompt window. Fair enough.

Now I try running Civ IV, but because the DVD is in my laptop, not in the knackered old PC, that copy of Civ IV can't authenticate. Do I haveto start the game on that knackered old PC? Can't I run Civ on my laptop and just the server app on the old PC?

Any advice gratefully received (by me and my 8 eager players!)

 

[oyzar]

pretty sure you can... Read the top thread of this forum...

 

[OverloadUT]

Running Pitboss does not need the CD in the drive, and you don't have to have ever run Civ4 on the server machine to run Pitboss.

 

[agibb]

Aha, OK. Guess there is something wrong with my installation. Like I said in the original post, when I run the pitboss app it just opens a terminal window then closes again. Back to the drawing board...

 

[Indiansmoke]

That's what pitboss does, when you chose all the settings and click next, it opens a command promt window which runs for a bit and then closes. After that closes you should get another window with the timer and the players of the game.

 

[agibb]

Yeah I don't get that. No settigns window, just the command prompt window, which closes, then nothing.

 

[agibb]

For anyone that comes to read this, it was because I hadn't patched.

Parents - talk to your kids about patching before asking stupid questions.

Of course, it still doesn't work, but that's for another thread...